Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[Bird]

Yesterday Cher says "time to cut grass and clean up" ... fired up the JD rider and in a couple passes a squealing ... deck bearing bad. Fired up the push mower and in a couple passes I says Geez this blade needs sharpening ... Removing the blade I broke the bolt broke off!!! ... Cranked the weedeater and it wouldn't go full throttle ....

I stated the following .... Why in gods name am I stupid enough to have a large yard? I suggested we fence it off and put in goats !!! Cher replied something about my arce ... I don't think she approved of the goats!!

You have my sympathy. I've had days like that, but fortunately today wasn't one of them. I spent exactly one hour on my little Toro ZTR mowing our yard and one next door. The grass was so high I was wishing I had a hay baler.

 

[blueriver]

You have my sympathy. I've had days like that, but fortunately today wasn't one of them. I spent exactly one hour on my little Toro ZTR mowing our yard and one next door. The grass was so high I was wishing I had a hay baler.

Well I got the baler!!!! I got the broken bolt out, plug welded a nut to the stub and turned it out. Went to the Stihl dealer and told him about it ... said to take out the spark arrestor and heat it red hot then blow it off with air ... ITS WORKING!!! Stopped and got the new bearing now I just gotta press out the old race ... thats not going to be easy!!!

Still no positive thoughts on the goats!!! I did get a new mule baby this week out of my Jack and one of my Haflinger mares !!!!

 

[Bird]

That's a fine looking little mule. Goats can sure be entertaining at times, and good eating, too.:laughing: But keeping them from escaping, roaming wherever they want to go, climbing on everything including your car can sometimes be a problem.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Yesterday Cher says "time to cut grass and clean up" ... fired up the JD rider and in a couple passes a squealing ... deck bearing bad. Fired up the push mower and in a couple passes I says Geez this blade needs sharpening ... Removing the blade

I stated the following .... Why in gods name am I stupid enough to have a large yard? I suggested we fence it off and put in goats !!! Cher replied something about my arce ... I don't think she approved of the goats!!

I had it almost as bad trying to cut the grass last Thurs. Got on the mower, made 2 laps and my weld on the old deck cracked again. Got out the torch and patched it. noticed the blades are shot. Can't find my 2 other pairs I had sharpened last year. Finished mowing after dark with the headlights. Got er done before the rain.

I broke off the bolt on my 10 year old JD rider last year. Put some anti sieze on them. I forget the number, but a couple of bearings and you can rebuild the blade spindles. Just ordered new blades on Amazon prime. Good ones for $27 a pair. already replaced fuel lines on Shindaiwa weedeater. Bought a new lower spindle and bump head. She's good to go.

 

[NativeSon]

That's a fine looking little mule. Goats can sure be entertaining at times, and good eating, too.:laughing: But keeping them from escaping, roaming wherever they want to go, climbing on everything including your car can sometimes be a problem.

Bird-- I'm with you. My favorite goat is Cabrito. When the Grandkids are over we go across the road and they love watching the goats. The other day I drove by and they were playing "King on the Hill" with a round bale.

BR-- Good looking Mule.

Charlie

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

So after 10 years of less than spectacular results, I finally bit the coin and went and got 3 yards of mushroom dirt for my garden. Wish I had been able to haul 3 more yards. Stuff is potent smelling too. Stinks like manure. Hope it helps.

Does anyone know a place to get cheap bulk cotton seed meal? I have seen it in cubes for cattle feed, but I want it in powder form to add to my garden.

 

[bindian]

I finally made Booger's grave a Cross. I didn't paint it white, cause Booger was just a plain old country dog. Our cat and ferret's graves have small white crosses. But Booger just wanted a Cross made out of corral boards without paint. I ripped the boards in half. Anyway, here is Booger, or Boogie, or Mooch's cross. Brady called him Mooch because every time Brady opened his door.........Booger was there to Mooch goodies from Brady. I just learned Brady always bought two packages of weiners. One for him and one for Mooch. The soccer ball was one of the last balls Booger acquired. It's been sitting there since we buried him. I sure miss him!
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Sunday's Dinner. The little duck thief was treed right beside Belle's dog house. I went outside twice in the dark this morning to tell Belle to quit barking. Little did I know a possum was treed within her cable run.
Yes, she got extra rawhide today!
hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

So after 10 years of less than spectacular results, I finally bit the coin and went and got 3 yards of mushroom dirt for my garden. Wish I had been able to haul 3 more yards. Stuff is potent smelling too. Stinks like manure. Hope it helps.

Does anyone know a place to get cheap bulk cotton seed meal? I have seen it in cubes for cattle feed, but I want it in powder form to add to my garden.

Kyle, I take it you must have a mushroom farm nearby. The Campbell Soup company used to have one at Hillsboro. I don't know how much that mushroom dirt costs if you're buying it, but employees could get it free, and my neighbor/buddy had a daughter-in-law working there. So a couple of times we took both our pickups and 16' trailers and went and go all they'd hold.:laughing: I was told that it was nothing more than chopped or ground up wheat or oat straw mixed with turkey manure. But they closed that mushroom farm about 15 years ago.

 

[foreman Etexas]

So after 10 years of less than spectacular results, I finally bit the coin and went and got 3 yards of mushroom dirt for my garden. Wish I had been able to haul 3 more yards. Stuff is potent smelling too. Stinks like manure. Hope it helps.

Does anyone know a place to get cheap bulk cotton seed meal? I have seen it in cubes for cattle feed, but I want it in powder form to add to my garden.

The local feed store should have the cotton seed meal but it's around 9.50 a 50lbs bag,doubt will have it in bulk, may can get them to get you a bulk bag in next feed order.
I know for sure WEST brand feed offers the meal and by dealer locator shows one in La Grange and Bastrop

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

The local feed store should have the cotton seed meal but it's around 9.50 a 50lbs bag,doubt will have it in bulk, may can get them to get you a bulk bag in next feed order.
I know for sure WEST brand feed offers the meal and by dealer locator shows one in La Grange and Bastrop

Thanks! will check into it.

 

[txdon]

Kyle, I know Lexington feed store had the 50lb bags 2 years ago. Might Check Carmine feed in Giddings. I also found out that ground cottonseed meal comes in two types of 50 pound bags, one had an added salt mixture for cattle - do not buy the one with added salt!

Another mistake I made was to leave the bags in the back of the pickup overnight - raccoons had a party :cool2:

 

[Bird]

Cousin near Fairfield and brother at Elm Mott both say they've recently seen hummingbirds. Last year all my hummingbird feeder attracted was ants, but I'm about to try again.

 

[mikim]

our humbird feeder just has bees around it right now. Bernice said she's waiting to see birds before she refills it....I'll let her know they're on the move.

 

[mikim]

Sunday's Dinner. The little duck thief was treed right beside Belle's dog house. View attachment 418731 I went outside twice in the dark this morning to tell Belle to quit barking. Little did I know a possum was treed within her cable run.
Yes, she got extra rawhide today!
hugs, Brandi

you didn't give her the possum? she earned it.....

 

[Lou66]

Mike a dog won’t eat a possum.. no one will,, but we did.. We were poor,, people that had a wooden floor was rich.. possum got to be boiled for few hours.. if not longer.. lol.. then baked,, nasty tasting but good with white gravy and cornbread,, they are greases,, give belle some beef.. lol.. good job belle..

 

[CowboyRon]

Mike a dog won’t eat a possum.. no one will,, but we did.. We were poor,, people that had a wooden floor was rich.. possum got to be boiled for few hours.. if not longer.. lol.. then baked,, nasty tasting but good with white gravy and cornbread,, they are greases,, give belle some beef.. lol.. good job belle..

I never could eat possum or coon, but I guess you can get a taste for it. I have a couple of friends that are not poor that still eat them.
On another note, I was at the grocery store the other day. A lady asked me if she could help me find anything, I asked her where they kept the poke salad.

 

[bindian]

you didn't give her the possum? she earned it.....

She gets enough grease.:laughing:
hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

Mike a dog won’t eat a possum.. no one will,, but we did.. We were poor

I've eaten barbecued coon on more than one occasion and it was pretty good, but I've never tried possum. I've always remembered my mother telling about a time when she and dad were first married, he brought a possum home and wanted her to cook it. But she said he had skinned it right out over the head, leaving the head on. She said that thing looked like it was grinning at her and she refused to cook it or have anything to do with it.

I asked her where they kept the poke salad.

Now that's something I've eaten lots of, but never got it from the grocery store.

 

[robbyr]

Kyle, did you make a trip over here for the mushroom compost?